Welcome to the first ever bonus edition of Weird Restaurant Stories. This week I am going to try something a little different. The difficulty I have each week in compiling this list is eliminating those last few stories. This week several of the stories I wanted to eliminate all fit into the same theme. So […]
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Weird Restaurant Stories 10/16
The deliberations are done. From hundreds of qualifiers, forty made the first cut. The second cut took us to eighteen. After a couple of hours of eliminations, I have the top twelve stories that happened in restaurants this week. Here are the winners. We might as well get it out of the way. “The Great […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 10/9
Welcome back to another week of strange restaurant stories from around the country. I have been writing this column for several weeks now. Those of you who read it every week have already started picking up on trends. This week we have our first follow up story. We also have what I think qualifies as […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 10/2
Welcome back for another week of weird restaurant stories from around the country and around the globe. Last week’s post sounded more like a crime blotter than a lighthearted romp through the news of the weird. It ended with two pleas. The first was to stop committing heinous crimes at restaurants and return to acts […]
Weird Restaurant Stories 9/25
“In the restaurant industries’ war on crime, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the reporters of local newspapers. These are their stories.” *dun dun* Generally, I try to find some oddball stories during the course of the week to make you all chuckle on Saturdays. I tend to read stories on Friday afternoon and […]
About The Author
David Hayden was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He took his first serving job in 1996. Since that time, he has worked for over a dozen different restaurant companies. He has held both hourly and salaried positions at independent and corporate restaurants. He has waited on over 100,000 guests and trained hundreds of servers. He has been named "Best Server in Kansas City" the last three years by the local weekly paper.
